V2
From the bestselling author of Conclave
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4.0 • 291 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024
'Immersive' Guardian
'Stunning' Daily Express
'Riveting' Telegraph
Victory is close. Vengeance is closer.
Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound.
In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London.
Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites.
As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide...
'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily Telegraph
'Supremely readable' Observer
'Delivers one hell of a punch' Express
'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben MacIntyre
Customer Reviews
He is Back!
It was with great disappoinment that I got to the “non end” of Robert Harris’s Second sleep. All that can be forgotten. This is one of his “fiction combined with fact” masterpeices. The history lesson - of how people lived and behaved in those dreadful times woven around the end game of WW2 - is a wonderful way to learn. As with most novels, the ending rather leaves the reader wanting to know: “well, the nwhat happend?”. Hopefully the 2 principle charachters will emrge in a squel.
V2
Very good
OK read, but lacks tension for a war story
Disappointed with this novel, so much opportunity for a tense drama amid the launching of V2 rockets in WWII, but just a humdrum story, almost a Theist on rocket development in the 1940s.